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links to organizations and related publications
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Lawyers for Superior Court Judge Joan Orie Melvin will have to prove before members of her own court that anonymous individuals who posted allegedly defamatory comments about her on the Internet should be forced to disclose their identities so she can proceed with a defamation suit against them, Legal Intelligencer (November 21, 2003)

The Ukrainian parliament passed the first reading of a bill banning internet publication of anything that promotes terrorism, the overthrow of the state or damages an individual's reputation, Agence France-Presse via Australian IT (November 19, 2003)

We must express our extreme disappointment that Al Bawada capitulated to the pressures put upon them by fundamentalist conservative closed minded people that would like us to believe that there are no G.L.B.T. people in the middle east, GayMiddleEast.com (October 4, 2003)

Absent express language to the contrary, the victim of an allegedly
offensive e-mail is not a third-party beneficiary of the sender's contract
with its Internet service provider and lacks standing to assert a breach
of contract claim on this basis, Technology Law Update (Adobe PDF format) (July 10, 2003)

Online Policy Group joins a group of 43 non-governmental organizations signing a letter to the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights urging his active participation in the preparatory committee and summit meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society, taking place in September and December 2003, (June 16, 2003)

A broad coalition of San Francisco community organizations has called an event to protest or celebrate, depending on the outcome of the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Texas sodomy statute, QueerNet Project of Online Policy Group (June 12, 2003)

This paper provides a
technical view on problems imposed by government blocking orders in Germany, blocking content
at the access or network provider level, and some empirical data on
the effects of the blocking orders to help in the legal assessment of the orders, Lecture Notes in Informatics (June 5, 2003)

The North Dakota Supreme Court affirmed a district court judgment in May in a $3 million libel claim brought against a former University of North Dakota student for her "harassing" remarks to a professor, Student Press Law Center (June 3, 2003)